Jeremy Fowler, an American doctor who studied Arabic through the U.S. Arabic Distance Learning Network while a student at Montana State U., tends to a patient at a clinic in Jordan.

By David Wheeler

As a student at Montana State University more than 10 years ago,
Jeremy Fowler decided to take Arabic, a language he was only dimly
aware of and was surprised to learn was available to him. Today he
is a doctor, using his Arabic to treat impoverished Bedouins with
tuberculosis at a small clinic near Irbid, Jordan.

"I never imagined myself working somewhere like this," he says.
"But the language studies prepared me to start helping out
immediately."